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Epistle of Barnabas 6.1

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: Isaiah: who will contend with the Lord's Servant?

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:358

Ὅτε οὖν ἐποίησεν τὴν ἐντολήν, τί λέγει; Τίς ὁ κρινόμενός μοι; ἀντιστήτω μοι· ἢ τίς ὁ δικαιούμενός μοι; ἐγγισάτω τῷ παιδὶ κυρίου.

English · Claude translation

When, then, he gave the command, what does he say? “Who is the one who disputes with me? Let him oppose me. Or who is the one who goes to law with me? Let him draw near to the Servant of the Lord.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:358 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἡ τίς ὁ δικαιούμενός → ἢ τίς ὁ δικαιούμενός.

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Barn. 6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/1/).

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Barn. 6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/1/).

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